Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 8,255 posts is dedicated to providing great information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

Texas counties
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Jesse Jarue Mark, Jr. (1905-1971)
Fifteen Thousand Spectators Gather to See the Lynching of Henry Smith, February 3, 1893
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Henry Smith (?-1893)
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James Hemings (1765-1801)
Witherspoon Presbyterian Church Princeton, NJ
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Witherspoon Street Church (1836- )

Explore Global African History

Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy
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Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy (1648- )
Denis Sassou-Nguesso (Encyclopedia Britannica)
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Denis Sassou-Nguesso (1943- )
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Djibouti City, Republic of Djibouti (1888- )
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Josef Johan Cosmo Nassy (1904-1976)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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John McWhorter, “Celebrate the Triumph of Ordinary Black Americans”
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Lewis G. Clarke: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Forgotten Hero
Africa in 1595 as known to Italian explorers and cartographers
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Africa and Africans in the Imagination of Renaissance Italians (1450-1630)
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Border Love on the Rio Grande: African American Men and Latinas in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas (1850-1940)

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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